2008 Pirates Chase Cruise Ship

The vessel which was bound for Iran with a cargo of sugar from Brazil is owned by an Iranian company.

2008 pirates chase cruise ship. As their cruise ship steamed through the Gulf of Aden on Sunday morning the 656 passengers and 400 crew members aboard the MS. Cruise liner with more than 1000 people on board but failed to hijack the vessel as it sailed along a corridor patrolled by international warships a maritime official said Tuesday. Pirates have attacked 32 vessels and hijacked 12 of them since NATO deployed a four-vessel flotilla in the region Oct.

A newspaper in Oman published a report today indicating that a cruise ship approximately 15 nautical miles off Masirah Island east of Oman was aggressively approached by two skiffs suspected of belonging to Somali pirates on November 23rd. Cruise ships have been frequent targets of pirates in recent years. There was one case in 2009 when pirates captured a cruise ship but quickly released it when they realized there were no passengers aboard.

In one famous 2005 incident the crew of one passenger ship used a sonic weapon to ward off an attempted at-sea hijacking. Tuesday December 02 2008. But this grew int.

December 2 2008 227 pm. Other ships have not been so lucky. NAIROBI Kenya AP Pirates chased and shot at a US.

But according to Danish TV2 News six to eight armed pirates on two speed boats were observed speeding toward the Nautica a cruise liner that had set sail from Florida. Cruise ship with more than 1000 people on board but failed to hijack the vessel as it sailed along a. 24 to escort cargo ships and conduct.

Transocean Tours cruise ship was approached by two pirate speedboats while on the Gulf of Oman en route from Sharm-al-Sheikh to Dubai but the pirate boats were chased off by the German frigate Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. December 2 2008 227 pm. The cruise ship is owned by Miami based Oceania Cruises and was.